Actually, (from another thread) I think that it is related to how environment
variables are accessed.
Consider:
$ FOO=benoît ./pharo Pharo.image eval 'OSEnvironment current associations'
{'TERM_PROGRAM'->'Apple_Terminal'. 'TERM'->'xterm-256color'.
'SHELL'->'/bin/bash'.
'TMPDIR'->'/var/folders/sy/sndrtj9j1tq06j0lfnshmrl80000gn/T/'.
'FOO'->'benoît'.
'Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render'->'/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.uWk7pivcLT/Render'.
'TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION'->'404'.
'TERM_SESSION_ID'->'845BECCD-0AB0-4686-B7F9-3A0FF84BDCB7'. 'USER'->'sven'.
'SSH_AUTH_SOCK'->'/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.y5oCwdUyaG/Listeners'.
'PATH'->'/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/opt/X11/bin'.
'PWD'->'/tmp/benoiÌt'. 'XPC_FLAGS'->'0x0'. 'XPC_SERVICE_NAME'->'0'.
'HOME'->'/Users/sven'. 'SHLVL'->'2'. 'LOGNAME'->'sven'. 'LC_CTYPE'->'UTF-8'.
'DISPLAY'->'/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.lsgASYFiWW/org.macosforge.xquartz:0'.
'SECURITYSESSIONID'->'186a9'. 'OLDPWD'->'/tmp/benoiÌt'.
'_'->'/tmp/benoiÌt/pharo-vm/Pharo.app/Contents/MacOS/Pharo'.
'__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING'->'0x1F5:0x0:0x0'}
As you can see, several values are wrongly decoded - and this is on macOS as
well.
> On 16 Apr 2018, at 15:10, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 16 Apr 2018, at 14:51, Alistair Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sven,
>>
>> On 16 April 2018 at 13:57, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Technically, at the File (FilePlugin) level we seem to be able to handle
>>> paths with strange characters, even on Windows, but somehow, somewhere a
>>> bogus call is made during image startup.
>>
>> I'm not going to have time to look at this in the next few days, sorry.
>>
>> But I have a vague memory that some of the other primitives outside
>> FilePlugin don't add the "\\?\" prefix, so they possibly also don't do
>> wide character conversion.
>
> Then I hope some other Windows user/developer can have a look.
> Hell, I believe we got a few French people working on Pharo, n'est pas ?
>
>> Cheers,
>> Alistair
